EU Cuts Poland Cod Quota After Overfishing In 2007 LUXEMBOURG: April 15, 2008 LUXEMBOURG - European Union ministers agreed on Monday to reduce Poland's annual allowances over four years for fishing cod in the eastern Baltic Sea as pay back for busting the quota in 2007, officials said on Monday. The decision ends months of angry exchanges between Warsaw and Brussels over whether Poland caught too much cod last year. At one point, Poland even filed a lawsuit against the European Commission, which administers quotas, at the EU's highest court.

To speed up membership talks with the eu, the Croatian government has agreed to suspend control over a no-fishing zone and allow eu nations to fish near its waters. Croatian prime

After exploiting Mauritania's waters for over a decade, the eu has renegotiated on a fishing deal with the West African nation nearly halving its catches. The move will hit Mauritania's national

An initial probe into the causes of the death of a large number of fish found on Sunday revealed that a high concentration of toxics in the backwaters of the Karachi harbour was responsible for the killing thousands of fish. The investigation was carried out by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) and the results of a chemical analysis will be released within 10 days. No evidence has been found to support the idea that the fish

Thousands of fish found dead along seashore SHAFI BALOCH KARACHI -Thousands of fish of various kinds were found dead on Karachi seashore on Sunday. The local fishermen faced huge finical losses as people started taking the fish from the sea, which had already been declared unhygienic, The Nation learnt on Sunday. According to the details, dead fish have been found in large number at various points of the metropolitan including, Kiamari Channel, Baba Bit, Karachi Fish Harbor, Korangi Creak and Girzi. None of the concerned authority has taken any action so far.

A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert.

emerging catastrophe: Climate change is emerging as the latest threat to the world's fast-declining fish stocks, says a new report by UNEP. The report, In Dead Water, says climate change may slow

Climate change is dulling the hearing of fish and making it more difficult for them to find a home, Australian researchers say.

Extra nitrogen in the environment makes its way into oceans as run-off from fields through water channels. This causes havoc in the aquatic ecosystem. Earlier, the extra nitrogen helped fish because